.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 332 198
Rank change year-on-year +110 -134 -53
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 807 366 1,009
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.86% 0.84% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.40% 4.84% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 750 322 855
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,188 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £106,125 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.06% +12.61% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,612 7,559 13,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.20% 17.28% 18.80%
Number of salaries quoted 7,178 5,036 10,213
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 14 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +112 210 £56,250 +12.50% 53
North of England +41 179 £55,000 -8.33% 37
East of England +72 118 £60,000 +14.29% 23
Midlands +43 109 £55,000 -8.33% 20
London -103 101 £80,000 - 79
South West -1 85 £52,500 +2.44% 14
North East +2 74 £65,000 +23.81% 9
North West +1 66 £50,000 -16.67% 20
West Midlands +13 63 £55,000 -8.33% 12
East Midlands +7 46 £55,000 +4.76% 8
Yorkshire -14 39 £47,500 -20.83% 9
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (2.85%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.12%) IIS
3 7 (0.87%) CMS
3 7 (0.87%) Confluence
4 4 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.37%) DNN
5 3 (0.37%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.37%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.37%) Kentico
5 3 (0.37%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Magento
1 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.25%) Sage 200
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 654 (81.04%) Azure
2 221 (27.39%) Azure DevOps
3 157 (19.45%) GitHub
4 141 (17.47%) AWS
5 138 (17.10%) GitHub Copilot
6 134 (16.60%) Azure AI
7 77 (9.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 47 (5.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 45 (5.58%) Power Platform
10 32 (3.97%) Azure Service Bus
11 31 (3.84%) Power Automate
12 29 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
12 29 (3.59%) SaaS
13 28 (3.47%) PowerApps
14 24 (2.97%) Serverless
15 22 (2.73%) Azure Key Vault
16 21 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
17 20 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
18 19 (2.35%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 19 (2.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.70%) Internet
2 7 (0.87%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.37%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) HTTP
5 1 (0.12%) Modbus
5 1 (0.12%) Network Security
5 1 (0.12%) SSL
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 448 (55.51%) Azure SQL Database
2 373 (46.22%) MongoDB
3 157 (19.45%) SQL Server
4 153 (18.96%) Elasticsearch
5 36 (4.46%) Power BI
6 25 (3.10%) MySQL
7 24 (2.97%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.49%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.36%) NonStop SQL
10 11 (1.36%) Redis
11 8 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.87%) GIS
12 7 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.37%) ZAP BI
15 2 (0.25%) MariaDB
16 1 (0.12%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 71 (8.80%) Git
2 15 (1.86%) JIRA
3 12 (1.49%) NUnit
4 10 (1.24%) GitLab
5 7 (0.87%) MSI
6 6 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.74%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.74%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.62%) Postman
7 5 (0.62%) Snyk
8 4 (0.50%) Selenium
9 3 (0.37%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.37%) JUnit
9 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.25%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.25%) Vite
11 1 (0.12%) MSTest
11 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 118 (14.62%) Finance
2 82 (10.16%) Social Skills
3 57 (7.06%) Advertising
4 44 (5.45%) Games
5 41 (5.08%) Marketing
6 35 (4.34%) Retail
7 32 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
9 25 (3.10%) Public Sector
10 23 (2.85%) Law
11 16 (1.98%) Banking
12 14 (1.73%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.36%) Legal
13 11 (1.36%) Music Industry
14 9 (1.12%) Automotive
15 8 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.62%) Front Office
16 5 (0.62%) Local Government
16 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 675 (83.64%) Developer
2 531 (65.80%) .NET Developer
3 108 (13.38%) Senior
4 97 (12.02%) Software Developer
5 72 (8.92%) Senior Developer
6 64 (7.93%) C# Developer
7 59 (7.31%) Lead
8 48 (5.95%) C# .NET Developer
9 40 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 38 (4.71%) Software Engineer
11 36 (4.46%) Lead Developer
12 30 (3.72%) .NET Software Developer
13 24 (2.97%) Senior Software Developer
14 23 (2.85%) Senior C# Developer
15 20 (2.48%) C# Software Developer
15 20 (2.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 19 (2.35%) .NET Software Engineer
16 19 (2.35%) Lead .NET Developer
16 19 (2.35%) Senior .NET Developer
17 18 (2.23%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 807 (100.00%) .NET
2 518 (64.19%) ASP.NET
3 450 (55.76%) ASP.NET Core
4 237 (29.37%) CSS
5 236 (29.24%) HTML
6 226 (28.00%) Entity Framework
7 215 (26.64%) Blazor
8 206 (25.53%) React
9 188 (23.30%) AngularJS
10 184 (22.80%) RESTful
11 173 (21.44%) Vue
12 172 (21.31%) ASP.NET Web API
13 159 (19.70%) Node.js
14 147 (18.22%) .NET Framework
15 134 (16.60%) ML.NET
16 108 (13.38%) LINQ
17 74 (9.17%) REST
18 44 (5.45%) JSON
19 37 (4.58%) WPF
20 23 (2.85%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 87 (10.78%) Greenfield Project
2 62 (7.68%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.48%) Digital TV
4 20 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.48%) Mobile App
5 17 (2.11%) iPhone
6 16 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (1.86%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.61%) Sports Betting
9 12 (1.49%) Social Network
10 11 (1.36%) BBC
10 11 (1.36%) Hedge funds
10 11 (1.36%) Social Media
11 10 (1.24%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.24%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.87%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.87%) Client/Server
12 7 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.60%) Windows
2 17 (2.11%) Android
3 6 (0.74%) VMS
4 4 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (65.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 424 (52.54%) Agile
3 272 (33.71%) CI/CD
4 271 (33.58%) DevOps
5 216 (26.77%) Microservices
6 165 (20.45%) AI
7 154 (19.08%) Machine Learning
8 146 (18.09%) Multithreading
9 102 (12.64%) Scrum
10 101 (12.52%) Software Engineering
11 91 (11.28%) OO
12 85 (10.53%) TDD
13 68 (8.43%) BDD
14 64 (7.93%) User Experience
15 63 (7.81%) Kanban
16 58 (7.19%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 56 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
18 55 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
19 54 (6.69%) SDLC
20 52 (6.44%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 754 (93.43%) C#
2 525 (65.06%) SQL
3 259 (32.09%) JavaScript
4 214 (26.52%) TypeScript
5 33 (4.09%) PowerShell
6 28 (3.47%) Python
7 14 (1.73%) Java
7 14 (1.73%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.87%) Bicep
9 6 (0.74%) Bash
10 5 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.50%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.50%) Ruby
11 4 (0.50%) VB.NET
11 4 (0.50%) VBA
12 3 (0.37%) Go
13 2 (0.25%) C
13 2 (0.25%) Dart
13 2 (0.25%) PHP
14 1 (0.12%) C++
Qualifications
1 67 (8.30%) Degree
2 29 (3.59%) Security Cleared
3 28 (3.47%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.12%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.37%) ICAEW
7 3 (0.37%) OCP
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.84%) QA
2 24 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.87%) NCSC
3 7 (0.87%) WCAG
4 4 (0.50%) GDPR
5 3 (0.37%) NIST
6 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.12%) ITGC
7 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 198 (24.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 180 (22.30%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.59%) Terraform
3 3 (0.37%) Ansible
3 3 (0.37%) Grafana
3 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 528 (65.43%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.57%) Facebook
3 46 (5.70%) Google
4 21 (2.60%) YouTube
5 19 (2.35%) Adobe
6 11 (1.36%) Apple
6 11 (1.36%) Sony
6 11 (1.36%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.74%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.74%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (0.50%) Sitecore
8 4 (0.50%) Workday
9 3 (0.37%) Alterian
9 3 (0.37%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.37%) Splunk
10 2 (0.25%) IFS
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle
10 2 (0.25%) Sage
10 2 (0.25%) Veracode